Serving Quotes - Page 9

• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

  James N. Frey

  Writing, Plot Lines, Stories

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• Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Writing, School

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.61, Routledge

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• While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Teaching, Adventure, Soldier

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Machines, Turns, Ifs

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Forbidden Circle”, p.175, Penguin

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• Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfishness, World, Way

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• Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Children, Giving

  "Madame Voldemort Is Wrong: Public Employees Are American Heroes" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Roles, Faces

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• I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

  Karl Malone

  Profound, Family And Friends, Force

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• Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Wine, Years, Kitchen

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• My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

  Rafael Nadal

  Get Better, Bombs, Variation

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• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  Oliver North

  Military, Mean, Names

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

  Susan Sarandon

  Family, Ideas, Priorities

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• I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  People, Political, Politics

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• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Self, Goal, Lines

  "The Hard-Line on Grocery Items" by Queen Rania al Abdullah, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Jobs, Directors, Want

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• A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

  James Cash Penney

  Ideas, Competition, Wells

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• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Loss, Congress, Distinction

  "Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Support, Groups

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• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Pope John Paul II

  Leader, Political, Religion

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Christmas, Giving Up, Spirit

  "Interview: Joel and Victoria Osteen on Christmas, Stewardship". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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• And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Running, Reality, People

  Interview with Jeff Sweat, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Self, Example, Needs

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

  Samora Machel

  People, Firsts, States

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